[geeks] Serial ATA

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, August 16, 2002 at 09:14:35 (-0400), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: [geeks] Serial ATA
>
> Still, IDE drives always seem so ... cheap and dinky compared to SCSI
> drives. 

Perhaps you haven't seen two of the same type of drive side by side, one
with a SCSI interface, and one with an EIDE ATA/100 interface.  Unless
you know what the connectors for each look like, you'd probably have a
hard time telling them apart (unless you cheat an read the identifying
marks on the labels, etc.).  They're equally "cheap and dinky" looking.

Only older high-voltage differential interfaces are pretty much
guaranteed to have easily visibly unique components on the controller
board.

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